Workshop #1

Strategies for the luxury sector in a time of crisis

This workshop will examine key challenges for the sector including finance, credit, default and other related issues luxury businesses should be thinking about in the current environment.

Erin Brady, Partner, Business Restructuring and Insolvency, Hogan Lovells

Federica Pietrogrande, Managing Director, Gordon Brothers

Hosted by Hogan Lovells

Workshop #2

Diversity and Inclusion – Key Takeaways for Brand Action and Accountabilities

In today’s climate of social, economic and cultural upheaval, consumers are demanding more transparency and accountability from their brands. Join McCarthy Tétrault in an interactive discussion to learn how to take a diversity and inclusion lens to your organization to:

– Enhance diversity and inclusion through change that is consistent with brand values

– Work with external service providers to bring about change in the profession

– Bring change to the community

• Lara Nathans, Partner, National Retail and Consumer Markets Group Leader and the firm’s Industry Strategy Leader, McCarthy Tétrault
• Miranda Lam, Partner, Retail Sector Lead and the firm’s National Gender Equality Chair, McCarthy Tétrault
• Nikki Gershbain, Chief Inclusion Officer, McCarthy Tétrault

Hosted by McCarthy Tétrault

Workshop #1

Supply Chain Risk Management and What it Means under a Biden Administration

Baker McKenzie partners will address risk management in the supply chain with a focus on:

• Supplier risk and relationship management
• Growing risk under a democratic administration

–           Export controls and sanctions risks in the supply chain lifecycle, especially in the upstream supply chain

–           Responsible sourcing/ESG matters

–           Current and likely future corporate risk

International Commercial & Trade Practice Team:

• Reagan Demas, Partner, Baker McKenzie
• Kerry Contini, Partner, Baker McKenzie
• Christina Conlin, Partner, Baker McKenzie
• Rod Hunter, Partner, Baker McKenzie

Hosted by Baker McKenzie

Workshop #2

Learning Your ABC’S w/ Amazon & eBay: Authentication, Brands and Counterfeits

Representatives from Amazon and eBay will sit down in a Zoom-side chat with Epstein Drangel LLP’s Ashly Sands to discuss recent developments in counterfeit enforcement and authentication tools on their platforms with a focus on luxury.

• Ashly Sands, Partner, Epstein Drangel
• Annasara Purcell, Corporate Counsel, Amazon
• Julien Dudouit, Global IP Senior Brand Manager, eBay

Hosted by Epstein Drangel

Stage 1:

A Tale of a City: Miami Transformed, Designing Luxury

Miami is becoming a new luxury hub, with international investors buying into the city from David Beckham & his football club to the Dior homme fashion show. How has this happened? What lessons can be learned and how does the future look?

• Transforming Miami
• The creation of the Design District
• ‘Made in Italy’ residential apartments

Panel Chair: Massimo Casagrande, Director, Istituto Marangoni

Craig Robins, Founder and CEO of Dacra Development, the co-founder and co-owner of Design Miami and developer of the Miami Design District

Liam Stefanov, Developer, Fortune International Realty

Eva Hughes, Founder & CEO, Adira Consulting

Workshop #1

#To Disclose or Not to Disclose

Like all brands, luxury brands rely on consumer reviews and have increasingly turned to celebrities – including social media “luxury lifestyle” influencers – to reach consumers through digital videos, Instagram stories, YouTube content and other social media posts and endorsements.  Bring your questions and join us to learn from those charged with enforcing truth in advertising how to solicit and aggregate reviews and when and how to disclose these influencer and other “material” relationships.

#ad#sponsored#gotthisforfree#brandambassador#Don’tMissThisSession with the Federal Trade Commission’s Serena Viswanathan, Acting Associate Director for Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection and Laura Brett, Vice President and Director of the National Advertising Division / BBB National Program, moderated by Nancy Felsten, who chairs the nationally-recognized Advertising, Marketing and Promotions practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Hosted by Davis Wright Tremaine

Workshop #2

Luxury’s Litigation Landscape – What is current? And what is trending for next season?

Join Danielle Garno and Meredith Slawe, co-chairs of Cozen O’Connor’s Retail Industry Group and David Eshmoili, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at David Yurman and Lorenzo Maria Di Vecchio, Head of Ethics & Compliance Global – Legal Affairs Director Italy at Christian Dior Couture as they discuss certain challenges the luxury sector has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, including an increase in consumer class action activity, commercial litigation and regulatory enforcement. This panel will discuss recent cases and trends and the implications for luxury going into 2021 and beyond.

Hosted by Cozen O’Connor

Workshop #1

Tailored Strategies to Protect Your Luxury Brand Business

Brands have never been more valuable, or more vulnerable. Global trade in a digital economy gives brands an unprecedented reach into virtually every market in the world but also creates risks to brand protection at a pace of change that has never existed before. Jeilah Y. Chan, Partner, Bennett Jones LLP will discuss intellectual property and brand protection strategies for luxury fashion with Sophie Marc, Partner, Santarelli IP.

Canadian Designer Bojana Sentaler from SENTALER will offer her perspectives on founding the now iconic luxury outerwear brand, and why SENTALER’s brand identity is so important to the company’s success.

Workshop #2

Blockchain, AI and cloud: which of these emerging technologies will have the most significant impact on the luxury sector?

This panel session will explore the future of tech in the luxury sector, with a debate around whether brands should be focusing on blockchain, AI or cloud to enhance their business in a post-pandemic world.

• Roelien Van Neck, Partner, Tech Transactions, Bird & Bird
• Martin Von Haller, Partner, Tech Transactions, Bird & Bird
• Ian Edwards, Partner, Tech Transactions, Bird & Bird

Hosted by Bird & Bird